Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promises Relief for Women
A Milwaukee woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing years of female trouble and back pain after doctors suggested surgery. The Pinkham firm in Lynn Massachusetts promotes free advice to sick women and highlights a long history of grateful letters.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ema Smee
First St
Pinkham Medicine Company
Lynn
Mass
Leas
Is. Pinkham
Think Hard It Pays to Think About Food
A Fond du Lac woman describes indigestion relief after four years of discomfort. She credits Grape Nuts and Postum with curing sour stomach, restoring heart function, enabling stairs and hills, and adding ten pounds of healthy weight in a month.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
Wellville
Open Air Schooling for TB In Chicago Children
Chicago tuberculosis measures consider sending infected children to open air classes if approved by the Board of Education. The text also threads through various ads and jokes from the era, including medicinal claims and light humor items, reflecting a period newspaper page.
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Chicago
Eight Years Old Club in Battle Creek Teaches Community
The Nature Club of Battle Creek Michigan shows what can be accomplished locally. Fifty members aged 8 to 80 pay 50 cents for hall rent and meet weekly in winter for talks and discussions. In spring to fall, meetings move outdoors with botanical geological and bird sections. A picnic campfire and a bee hunter demonstration highlight gatherings.
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Nature Club
Battle Creek
Mich
Country Life In
America
Mischief Sign and Hogarth Imagery Tour UK
A wall sign reproduces Hogarth’s Mischief motif along the Madingley road near Cambridge. The display echoes older Ox ford Street signs and variations exist at Wallingford and Norwich. The faded image shows a man bearing a woman with a gin glass and chains labeled Wedlock, plus a pawnbroker’s shop sign and a carpenter entering to pledge tools.
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Cambride
Madingley Road
Hogarth
Oxford Street
London
Wallingford
Norwich
Madingl@y
Stripe, Pawnbroker
Carpenter
Strand Magazine
Hancock’s Sulphur Compound Offered For Skin Relief
An advertisement touts Hancock’s Sulphur Compound as an instant itch reliever for eczema and skin complaints. It promises soothing cures, recommends druggists, and cites testimonials and a Baltimore company address.
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Hancock
Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co
Baltimore
H. ©. Berry
Peculiar To Itself Baseball Reporter Winter Line
A Louisville Courier Journal exchange notes the baseball reporter in winter crafts no nonbaseball content and the editor asserts such language only fits baseball needs. The dialogue highlights editorial stance on sports writing and seasonal constraints.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Reduced excursion rates by Atlanta railroad for various associations
The Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad offers reduced rate excursion tickets for events listed in Atlanta Ga Cumberland Island Ga Louisville Ky New Orleans La Asheville N C Portland Ore Seattle Wash and more with dates in May and June 1909 and notices to contact ticket agents for details.
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Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad
American Associaion of Opticians
Atlanta
Georgia Educational Association
Cumberland Island
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
Louisville
Asponapeae
New Orleans
National Association T. P. A
Asheville
N. C
National Baptist Convention
Portland
Ore
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Seattle
Wash
W. i. Leary
United Confederate Veterans’ Revie
Memphis
Tenn
Atlanta, Emiauam & Atlantic Railroad
Inc
Certal Pointe
Warerons
Tifton
Thamesville
Pitegerald
Deva
Teething Syrup Ad and Scots Riddle Snippet
Ad for Mrs Winslow s Soothing Syrup priced at 25c per bottle as a teething remedy. A Tit-Bits joke notes a Scotsman settling a question with a pun about Mary Queen of Scots being born at Linlithgow, implying there is nothing more to discuss.
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Doctor Mitchell
Hall & Ruckel
N. Y. City
Mary Queen of
Scota
Linlithgow
Sandy Kerr
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